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Scottish Festivals Guide 2025 (Part 2)

As always, there are just too many great Scottish festivals to fit in one ...

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SNACK 08/04/2025

Visual Arts

Petra Bauer, Sisters! at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (review)

This month, Fruitmarket offers a view behind the scenes of intersectional domestic abuse help ...

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Alekia Gill 19/03/2025

Scottish Festivals Guide 2025 (Part 1)

We love festivals. We travel the world to see our favourite bands and find ...

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SNACK 10/03/2025

SHÂN EDWARDS on Affordable Studios For Artists

Outer Spaces has been connecting artists with vacant commercial property to be used as ...

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Alekia Gill 08/03/2025

House Lights: Art Students Illuminate Reality Behind Cultural and National Myth

How much of our communities are made of myth? When companies and cultures pave ...

Georgia Beard 07/03/2025

Queer & Now – Exhibition review – HAPWORKS_00, Dundee

They are using the same language as before. That’s what the exhibition and its ...

Natalie Jayne Clark 11/02/2025

POP LIFE Exhibition Review (Visual Arts)

Having previously exhibited in the Netherlands and Sweden, Pop Life finds its way to ...

Oscar Lund 11/12/2024

Belladonna Paloma On Speaking To The Dead & Feeding The Artwork

Shetland-based artist Belladonna Paloma uses a mixture of unconventional materials and witchcraft to create ...

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Alekia Gill 03/12/2024

Claire Jackson, Co-Curator of You are my kindred spirit, on reflecting Maud Sulter’s legacy

Maud Sulter was a trailblazing artist, photographer, poet and curator of Scottish and Ghanaian ...

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Alekia Gill 26/11/2024

SweetBitter by Nat Walpole (EXHIBITION REVIEW)

SweetBitter is a solo exhibition of paintings by Glasgow-based artist Nat Walpole. As an ...

Rastko Novakovic 20/11/2024

HOLLY DAVEY on ‘The Unforgetting’ to mark Fruitmarket at 50 years

Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket is 50, and to celebrate 50 years of groundbreaking exhibitions, artist Holly ...

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Alekia Gill 12/11/2024

BARRY ESSON on connecting global practices to local ones and devastating decisions (Tramway, Glasgow).

This November, Glasgow’s Tramway hosts a five-day line-up of performances, screenings, discussions, and workshops ...

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Alekia Gill 08/11/2024

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